Spring-wheel.



v. E LANE. SPRING WHEEL. APPLICATION FILED APR.3, 1912v Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS VICTOR EDWARD LANE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW' YORK.

SEEING-WHEEL. 4

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented Feb. a, 1913.

Application filed April 3, 1912. Serial m. 688,206.

To all "whom itmay concern Be it known that I, VICTOR E. LANE, a

. citizen of the United States, residing in Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented a new and Improved SpringdVheel, of whichtlie following is a full, clear, and exact description.

' This invention relates to that type of resilient wheels which are commonly employed on pleasure and commercial vehicles, and among the objects aimed at in the present improvement, is to construct a wheel, of this type which is neat-in appearance, compact andpractically dust-proof .vithrespect to 'movable parts.

Another object is to construct a wheel which has considerable freedom of movement and elasticity with respect to vertical movements, but which is substantially solid with respect to transverse movements.

A still. further object is to constructa wheel of this type in which the strains inci-. distributed of thedent to flexibility, are all equally among the several component parts buffer or compression mechanism.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention are attained in a preferred embodiment, by means of the mechanism hereinafter fully described and claimed and illustrated on the accompanying drawings, wherein the several parts are referred to by like reference characters in the several figures, and in which.-

. Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wheel made in accordance with this invention, one of the side plates being partially broken away; and Fig. section on the line 22 of Fig. 1 on a larger scale.

This wheel comprises essentially the following parts: a telly 10, to which may be connected any suitable or approved form of rim 11 and tire 12; a hub 13, and a body portion 14, shown in this case as comprising a pair of side plates 15, and a series of spokes 16, rigidly connected to the side plates and the telly, whereby the telly, spokes and side plates constitute a practically rigid structure. The parts thus far described are more or less conventional and may be variously constructed within the spirit of this invention.

The hub 13 is preferably constructed to include a circular series of transverse cylindrical bosses 17, arranged preferably in the plane of the spokes and tire. The hub 2 is a vertical transverse also is'shown as comprising a pair of spaced parallel flat flanges 18, extending outwardly radially of the wheel toward said bosses and against the outer faces of which the inner edges 15% are adapted to operate and whereby the wheel is prevented from sidewise or lateral distortion throughout its sphere of operation. Cooperating with said cylindrical bosses are a series of butter or compression means of peculiar construction. This construction embodies a pair of cups 19, mounted in each of said bosses and movable toward and from each other therein.

Between each pair of cups is a compression spring 20', tending normally to separate said cups. Theseparation or outward movement of the cups is prevented or limited by cooperation with as many cones 21, carried by or upon the inner facesof the side lates 15. VV-hile the relative arrangement 0 each cup and its cooperating cone cone extends int-o a concavity in the cup. When there is relative movement between themain body of the wheel and the hub in a vertical plane, the cones 21, in gliding over the concave surfaces of the cups, may cause the cups of the several pairs to approach each other, putting the interposed springs under compression, but which movement of thecups will be limited by their contacttogether, before any possibility of the separation of the cups from their respective cones may take place. All of the compression means are preferably of the same construction and the arrangement is such that all strains tending to distortthe wheel in a vertical plane, will be equally distributed amongjall of them, whereby the resiliency of the wheel mayrbe etl'ected in a superior manner and yet provide that there shall be no lateral or sidewise distortion or weakness occasioned.

It is to be understood that the several parts of this whee-l may be variously constructed, as to materials or relative sizes and may be-varied, the construction shown is one in which the proportions, according to the exigencies or reauirements of any particular demand. and I 0 not wlsh to be hunted to the features illustrated, except as maybe required by the invention. I by Letters a pair of side plates embracing saidbpsses each with sai'd clips; and between, each pair of cups and iendin'grto force them apart in vtheir eoiiperatlon with sand Cones.

flangesv and a series hren si'erse bosses ex-' tending outwardly between and radially beyond said flanges, a wheel body, including- ,and coiiperating slidably' with said'flehges,

and compression means comprising a'fseries two subscribin Witnesses-I i of pairs of cups mounted for transverse Y 1 EDWARD LANE. slidable movement in the respective hub Witnessesz bosses a series of pairs of eonescarriedby p I GEO; L 'BIiiEfiEE, f r the sai side plates and coijperetmgeachtoi I 1 PHIIJ.P D. Romans. Oogiee o time paeent may he o btaina fqr m ceni is each, by

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